Chapter 155: Blue (1/2)

”Hey wait!”

Tyler tried calling out to Nadine because he could sense a couple of monsters up ahead in the direction the Lesser Djieien was retreating to, which meant there would surely be a trap there. Considering the high intellect of the monster for being able to recognize the threat that Nadine posed to its life and had immediately chosen the best course of action to take.

While Tyler was confident that the monster would try to lead Nadine into a trap as that was its best option for survival. Still, both the monster and Nadine had underestimated each other as Nadine's speed was surely superior to the creature and it wouldn't be able to get too far away from her.

And as for Nadine, something was surely up with her and perhaps it was just overexcitement from her sudden growth which had made her a bit overconfident but Tyler was a bit worried about her skill |Temper|, whose effects were unknown to him but he didn't like the name at all.

With a sigh, he extended his senses in the direction they ran to and as he thought, she had already been surrounded by ten Lesser Djieien and her blood was being absorbed for energy. Tyler quickly cast spatial movement and appeared amid all ten monsters.

Using his full speed, he cleanly cut off the heads of all the monsters before they had even noticed him as he spoke tiredly. ”I can't believe there was someone foolish enough to get caught in an obvious trap like that.”

His words were like daggers to Nadine's heart whose only goal had been to be of use to him but Tyler had no choice but to say that because he needed her to reflect on her actions and get back to her usual self. For demons, their strength was the greatest source of their pride and thus a demon's pride was the demon race's greatest strength and also, their greatest weakness.

Tyler then proceeded to flick Nadine across her forehead as he swung his weapon and she was set free. He then cast light heal on her to heal her open wounds and restore her blood.

”You should never get carried away in such a place. There may be even stronger monsters lurking in the shadows.”

Nadine rubbed the red spot on her forehead as she nodded dejectedly. Tyler seemed to be sighing a lot lately as he once again sighed and patted her on the head. ”It's fine, don't worry about it. What's important is that you learn from this.”

Nodding her head, they both proceeded down the tunnel, and as soon as they made a turn. The strength immediately drained out of Tyler simply from the sight he saw before him.

”Oh... oh wow.”

He had quickly run out of words as he could not bring himself to acknowledge the fact that he had been proven wrong in only a span of about 5minites even though his earlier monologue had sounded so cool in his head.

”I guess I was wrong. There are people foolish enough to get caught in obvious traps like those.”

Right before his eyes, were five short burly figures that were completely wrapped in white sticky webs as they laid in compromising positions arguing amongst themselves as they struggled endlessly but failed to get themselves free from the monster webs.

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—At the same time.

In the south borough of Winged City,

Behind the thick metal doors of the large two-story building by the side of an alley in the lower districts of the south borough was the previous hideout of the South division of the Numbers organization. The place was more of a two-story warehouse converted into a living quarter by the previous occupants of the place.

There were five large rooms on the first floor of the building, two of which were used as actual storehouses to store the goods that were being smuggled by the organization and the other three were used to entertain the members of the organization with various illegal and illicit activities.

The second and final floor in the building contained over ten private rooms that could be used by the higher-ranking members of the organization as non of the other bunch actually lived here. Although most would generally pass out on the first floor and end up spending several nights here.

However—

At this point, the place that would normally be crowded with the brutish members of the organization was almost empty. Yes, almost was the right word to use as currently the place was occupied by someone.

On the second floor of this building, a faint but steady and constant noise could be heard from behind the doors of one of the rooms.

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It was a small room.

The only furniture in this almost empty room was a cabinet a chair and a bed.

The bed was a sort of canopy bed with a simple-looking mattress that held no covering or duvet. While the bed and mattress may look simple, they were not as they were luxurious items that were well made. Of a sort that would be used in a noble home. However, they had only be designed for functionality and thus did not have any extravagant designs on them.

A naked man sat on the bed.

He was quite the skinny man that most would choose to avoid on the road as he looked sickly and even beggars would avoid him. He had pale grey skin and a long thin tail that protruded from his lower back.